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US 11,387,012 B2Granted
Standing nanowire-based elastic conductor
AssigneeMonash University
InventorsWenlong Cheng, George P Simon, Yan Wang
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Abstract
An elastic conductor comprising: an elastomeric substrate, and an array of nanowires, wherein the nanowires are upstanding relative to the surface of the substrate.
Claims12
An elastic conductor comprising:
- an elastomeric substrate comprising a surface, and
- an array of gold nanowires grown by using a growth solution containing 550 μM 4-Mercaptobenzoic acid, 6.8 mM of chloroauric acid, and 16.4 mM L-ascorbic acid,
- wherein the nanowires are upstanding relative to the surface of the elastomeric substrate.
A method of fabricating an elastic conductor comprising an elastomeric substrate and an array of gold nanowires upstanding relative to the surface of the elastomeric substrate, the method comprising the steps of:
- functionalising a surface of the elastomeric substrate,
- seeding the functionalised surface with particulate gold, and
- growing the array of gold nanowires from the particulate gold, by using a growth solution containing 550 μM 4-Mercaptobenzoic acid, 6.8 mM of chloroauric acid, and 16.4 mM L-ascorbic acid wherein the gold nanowires are upstanding relative to the surface of the elastomeric substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.